In the battle of the land pass in Lezhi County, Pan Yihong died in disgrace. The army of robbers he brought out was all wiped out, and none of them escaped.

As a corresponding consideration, one soldier was killed and two seriously wounded in the second company of the caravan, all of which belonged to a row of formations near the cliff. The artillery platoon commander He Chengjun suffered a severe injury to his leg tendon and was unable to walk.

Considering that there were five or six hundred captives to be guarded, He Qiukou left Liu Sangen to lead the first and second platoons of the second company to escort the prisoners and take care of the wounded. He and Lin Yanqin led the second company, the third platoon, the fourth platoon and the first company of firecrackers to rush to the Mahayana Temple, and arrived at the Mahayana Temple in the evening of the same day.

The Mahayana Temple is a thousand-year-old temple that covers a vast area. The offensive force is thin, but the defensive force is even smaller. Attacking such a solid point is more than will, and it is more than determination.

The shouting of the Pan family and the head of the Pan family raised on the tip of the spear made the enemy waver in his determination to hold on. Yao Erwa led three rows over the broken part of the temple wall and suddenly occupied the enemy's rear, which broke the enemy's will.

After receiving the guarantee of life, the more than 100 subordinates who stayed behind in the Mahayana Temple finally chose to surrender and handed over all the results of Pan Yihong's recent robbery: more than 1,300 strong men, more than 500 young women, more than 10,000 taels of silver, and a large number of jewelry, ornaments, utensils, and money. Only the grain is relatively small, and the total amount is less than 1,000 stones.

In the middle of the night, Liu Sangen rushed to the Mahayana Temple with the captives. The women boiled 20 stone of grain in the cauldron of the temple, and the people who had been dizzy with hunger rushed up, and they didn't care about the rice burning their mouths, so they grabbed it out of the pot with their hands and kneaded it into rice balls and ate it.

You can eat rice, but you can't eat it in vain.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to eat, according to the important instructions of Shu Shizi on the northward detachment "being both a combat team and a work team", the caravan team formed a number of working groups with squads as units, and adopted the ideological work method of showing up to talk with these captives, plundered strong men and women at "zero distance", pour bitter water, analyze the reality, talk freely about the prospects, build a positive image of the Shu royal palace and the caravan protecting the people and protecting the people, publicize the benefits of the royal land donation policy to the people, and encourage the strong men to join the village protection team and take up arms to defend their homeland.

Early the next morning, hundreds of captives were screened in a courtyard by a caravan. The veterans of the caravan were very familiar with the method of registration and mutual verification of screening, and with the on-site assistance of the general and the Pan family who had surrendered, they quickly singled out nearly two hundred villains with blood debts on their hands. They were held in solitary confinement and later handed over to Jadenlian.

Captives are to be screened, and captives and women are to be registered and screened. These people are huge human resources, Pan Yihong can see it, and the caravan can also look at it.

After mobilization, almost all of the Zhuang Ding's families have land and land, and almost everyone is willing to surrender to Wang Zhuang and join the local village protection team, determined to fight to defend their homeland and relatives.

The poor and strong men who have no land are the majority. More than 200 unconcerned bachelors immediately chose to follow the caravan to earn military salaries. The rest of the people have families and children, and they are the pillars of the family, so they have to go home separately. They took the promise that the land reclaimed by Wangzhuang would not be rented for two years, and left the guarantee that they would join the local Wangzhuang and the village protection team in the future, had a farewell meal, and each received 100 wen at the gate of the temple to go home, and reluctantly left the Mahayana Temple.

In addition to the villains who have been imprisoned, the caravan also has a large number of prisoners. These captives were actually the same thing as the strong men who had been taken captive, and they were all honest peasants before. Just because they have been on the battlefield, they are more or less guilty. He Qiukou made them atone for their sins. More than 400 captives, together with more than 200 strong men, were temporarily assigned to the squads of the second company of the caravan. The second company swelled to the size of a battalion in an instant, and on average, each soldier in the second company had to take four of his men. The first company and artillery platoon are equipped with firearms, which belong to the seed units of the technical arms, so they are still separately organized.

Men are easy to take care of, but women are much more troublesome. More than 300 young women were reluctant to take the money home, which made He Qiukou sad. However, Liu Sangen slapped him on the chest and said that he had covered the woman's business.

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The army, it seems, is inherently a monster that cannot tolerate emotions. Women are gentle killers of iron-blooded men. According to military regulations in ancient times, women were not allowed to enter the barracks. Violators will be beheaded.

However, this is not the case with the tradition of the Shu Wangfu and the two teams of Shangzhuang under his command, and women have never become a burden to the army.

In Dongmen Ren City, Zhu Pingjin, at Sun Hong's suggestion, bought men and women together, and women and children, the old and the weak, were collected together. The strong men served as soldiers, and the rest ploughed the fields. Facts have proved that Zhu Pingjin's policy is on the right path. Those who fight wars are connected with the hearts of those who plough the fields, and the hearts of the army and the people are stable. Both those who went into battle and those who ploughed the fields burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness and initiative. The infinite potential of human resources has been fully mobilized.

However, Zhu Pingjian's hurried practice in Dongmen City was only the beginning of the work of women in the Shu Palace. The creation of a new situation of great prosperity in women's work in Shu should be attributed to Li Chongwen and Liu Hongting. In Renshou County, they organized homeless women and set up the Renshou Weaving Bureau. With the help of local advantageous industries, Renshou Weaving Bureau has expanded rapidly and become the largest cluster textile industry group in Shudi.

But it was only recently that women's work was really on track and thriving.

In the dense pine forest of Songlin Mountain, the prince Zhu Pingjin shed a drop of saliva for some reason, and was penetrated by his wife's sharp gaze. With the consciousness of a woman, she keenly felt a threat: that is, her husband might degenerate into a woman because of women's work. So his wife quickly abandoned her previous promise not to meddle and did not hesitate to take over the women's work from her husband.

As soon as Luo Yuhong took over, her vigorous and new-school thinking immediately brought earth-shaking changes to women's work, and the role of Half the Sky in the political, military, and economic three-dimensional system of the Shu Palace's palace immediately began to appear.

On the economic side. The newly formed Sichuan Weaving Bureau is a women's gang. From the number one Xiaolan to the ordinary weavers and spinners at the grassroots level, almost all of them are women. Most of the few men were eunuchs, such as Luo Yin, the general manager of the supply department in charge of cotton procurement.

According to Luo Yuhong's plan, the Sichuan Weaving Bureau is not a simple intensive chemical factory, but more like an industrial group integrating agriculture, industry and trade, issuing orders to tens of thousands of families with spinning machines and looms, stipulating the time, variety and price of delivery, and controlling the cotton and linen markets in Sichuan through industrial scale.

Luo Yuhong also envisioned that the Sichuan Weaving General Administration should gradually develop from the current single military production to the future garment industry and fashion industry. In order to achieve this goal, Luo Yuhong has snatched Liu Hongting from Zhu Pingjin and snatched control of the original Wangfu Song and Dance Troupe, while the female officials of the Wangfu Chengfeng Division are busy making clothes every day. Luo Yuhong told Liu Hongting that she would hold a fashion show at a suitable time and place, and invite the princess of Shu, the princesses of various counties, as well as Liao Daheng and Liu Zhibo's concubines and other official eunuchs to the party. Luo Yuhong's mind is in line with Liu Hongting's character of seeking innovation and change, and she has established a relationship with Shu Guoping, who led the army, and her sense of crisis seems to have declined. She immediately put aside her job as deputy chief of the General Staff and threw herself into the fashion industry with pleasure and physical and mental pleasure.

The weaving industry has become a monopoly industry for women, and large workshops such as leather, paper, tea, and tobacco processing in Yazhou have also begun to recruit a large number of female workers.

For example, in the sticker drying process of papermaking, the finishing process of tea, and the cigarette process of tobacco, more than 70% of the workers are women. The gunpowder manufacturing and ammunition packaging of the Firearms Bureau of the Rent Collection Yard are all female workers who are patient and meticulous and averse to smoking. In Wangzhuang, most of the side businesses such as raising chickens and ducks are done by women. Even Luo Yuhong's Huitong Money Bank, the front desk has changed into a female teller in a uniform uniform.

This incident once caused a craze of onlookers in Chengdu Prefecture. The beautiful and sexy female teller and the magnificent palace of the Shu Wangfu complement each other, and are known as the two major attractions of Huitong Qianzhuang by the people of Chengdu Mansion. Some hooligan literati also held a poetry club with this theme, and obscene poems and glamorous words were posted everywhere, and even pasted on the two stone plaques of the Huangcheng Dam, causing Wu and Shen to lead the yamen people to clean up small advertisements everywhere overnight.

On the military side. Luo Yuhong returned from inspecting Renshou and Pengshan counties, and selected about 50 young and capable women for Zhu Pingjin to form the Sichuan Invalids General Hospital, which was subordinate to the General Staff Headquarters like the First Independent Baggage Battalion. She had already chosen the first dean, and it was her senior brother, Wang Han, the eldest apprentice of Doctor Luo, an honest and responsible person of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, who could completely prevent the prince from improperly contacting these nurses in the name of inspection.

The Propaganda Bureau of the Military Department, which was in charge of Sun Hong and Tian Qian, also integrated several subordinate grass-roots teams into propaganda teams within the army's organizational structure, and delegated them to various important strategic directions as subordinate units, so as to enhance the morale of the army. The first propaganda team has been formed, and after waiting for the approval of the prince, it will be dispatched to Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun's northward advance team.

On the political front. There are Princess Shu and Miss Luo, who are known to everyone in Shu, and no one can deny the ability of women. A group of women like Liu Hongting, Xiaolan and Xiaohong have taken leadership positions in the palace and have achieved good results.

Zhu Pingjin's wife is not willing to become his appendage, she is ambitiously referring to the model of the "Sichuan Federation of Young Students for the Protection of the Country and the People", the establishment of a "Sichuan Women's Federation for the Protection of the Country and the People", referred to as the "Sichuan Women's Association", and personally designed a monogram that looks very similar to red lips.

According to Zhu Pingjin's definition, this women's association belongs to the extension of the united front work in the women's circle, unlike the Youth Federation, which has to do secret dirty work, so its organizational structure is more complete and larger than that of the Youth Federation from the beginning. The honorary president of the branch women's association is Zhu Pingjin's mother Shu princess, Zhu Pingjian's wife Luo Yuhong is the nominal president, the executive vice president is served by Liu Hongting, the orphan of the martyrs, Luo Yuhong's sworn friends Xiaolan and Xiaohong are all standing committee members, Tan Fang became the secretary general, and Princess Taiping and Liao Daheng and Liu Zhibo's concubines and other prominent Shu officials are specially invited directors of this branch women's association.

According to the geographical division, the branch women's association opened branches in the prefectures and counties of Shudi. The wives of the local leaders of the royal palace generally became the leaders of the branches, and the wives and concubines of the local officials, gentry, and women in the royal government's agricultural and industrial industries were all promoted to membership.

According to Zhu Pingjin's sarcastic account of his wife, this snake-like organizational structure is very similar to a pyramid scheme organization and a cult organization.

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The continuous light rain for three consecutive days made the roads muddy, and He Qiukou had no choice but to give up the plan to pursue and attack Anyue County with victory.

On the fourth day of taking the Mahayana Temple, the swollen caravan headed for the county seat of Lezhi. Le Zhizhi County led the county's officials and gentry to welcome ten miles, three sacrifices, and four fruits were reunited (Note 1), such as the example of respecting the ancestors of saints.

Soon, He Qiukou's head-to-head offensive came into play again. Seeing that the chief general was conferred the head, Chen Qisheng, the general manager, immediately gave up the county town of Anyue, which had been opened by fraud a few days ago, and fled in a hurry to the direction of Hechuan County in the east, with the possibility of fleeing to Sichuan by the Jialing River and the Yangtze River waterway.

The thieves fled, and from all aspects, it was necessary for the caravan to continue to march towards Anyue County. Just before leaving, He Qiukou received an order from the Shu Palace.

The will of the prince was to commend all the officers and soldiers of the third battalion who participated in the battle. Set up the Tongchuan Prefecture Guardian Corps. He Qiukou and Liu Sangen's current positions were relieved. He Qiukou was promoted to the deputy captain (deputy regiment level) and acting captain of the Tongchuan Prefecture Huzhuang Corps; Liu Sangen was promoted to the acting battalion commander (deputy battalion level) of the basic battalion of the Tongchuan Prefecture Huzhuang Corps (the internal number is the independent first battalion of the Huzhuang team).

Lin Yan was promoted to the commander of the first company of the third battalion of the caravan (company level).

In view of the heroic performance and important role of the artillery platoon commander He Chengjun in the battle of the land pass, He Chengjun was awarded the honorary title of "Iron Fist Gunner". He and two seriously wounded soldiers were immediately escorted by Feng Ruhu to Chengdu Invalids General Hospital for treatment.

In the official decree came a letter of instruction from the prince himself.

Shizi said in the letter that Luo Jingyun had reached an agreement with Jia Denglian, and the governor of Tongchuan Prefecture also sent people to express his support. A large number of royal villages are expected to be established everywhere in the land of Tongchuan. Mr. Li Chongwen is about to arrive in Shehong County to take unified command of Tongchuan military and political affairs. At present, the main task of the Tongchuan Prefecture Huzhuang Corps is to clean up the three southern counties of Tongchuan Prefecture -- Suining, Lezhi, and Anyue -- like ploughing and sweeping holes, and control all the three counties and make them an important grain and military source base of the Shu Wangfu in the central Sichuan region. In the future, when the conditions are ripe, the three southern counties of Tongchuan Prefecture can be used as a base, and the whole territory of Tongchuan can be controlled in the north, Neijiang and Yongchuan in the south, and then Luzhou can be connected. The establishment of the Tongchuan Prefecture Guardian Corps is precisely to achieve this strategic purpose.

Shizi's letter also instructed that at present, the main force of the third battalion of the caravan guard is about to arrive in Shunqing Mansion, the first company of the third battalion and the artillery platoon should be returned to the team quickly, and the second company should be expanded into the basic battalion of the Tongchuan Prefecture Huzhuang Corps, so as to incorporate and rectify the local armed forces, vigorously develop the village protection team, and prepare for Mr. Li's immigration reclamation and the establishment of Wangzhuang.

was promoted from the main battalion to the deputy regiment, and became a general in his own right, but He Qiukou was not very happy. In his heart, he is still willing to do field battles to destroy the enemy's caravans, rather than to defend the land and protect the township. In the evening of the same day, he ordered Lin Yan to lead the team back to Jianjian the next day, Liu Sangen led the team to help the people harvest crops, and he took advantage of the rain to stop and set up troops overnight to rush to the devastated Anyue County.

A day later, the caravan successfully recovered Anyue County. The huge Anyue County has become a half-dead dead city.

He Qiukou entered the county office, and at first glance, he saw the county lord's crooked hat and torn robe, babbling and dancing in the lobby.

Note 1: Three animals, also known as Taijiao. The big three animals refer to the heads of sheep, pigs, and cows. Later, chickens, fish, and pigs were also used as three animals. The four-fruited variety is not fixed, but it must be flowering and fruiting.